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The country’s agricultural sector is in full-blown panic mode as President Donald Trump’s long-promised mass deportations are starting to become a reality in farming communities across the United States.

And the ripple effect could soon hit supermarkets, as the chaos surrounding Trump’s strict immigration policies – which already include stepped-up ICE raids – is already threatening to send food prices soaring before long, according to a report in The New Republic.

President Donald Trump has continued his pardons and commutations for those he is allied with. The latest came Wednesday evening when he announced "a full and unconditional pardon" for Andrew Zabavsky, one of two Washington, D.C. police officers who were convicted of killing a 20-year-old scooter rider during a police chase.

In 2020, police pursued Karon Hylton-Brown for riding a scooter without a helmet. Hylton-Brown crashed the rented moped as officers gave chase. Authorities described the chase at the time as "illegally reckless."

Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) tore into President Donald Trump's decision to dismantle the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention in his first week.

"It took one day for Donald Trump to disband the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention," wrote Goldman, a former federal prosecutor. "Gun violence is the leading cause of death for U.S. children, but Trump and the GOP would rather cozy up to the gun lobby than protect our kids. We deserve better than this."

President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the FBI, Kash Patel, has a history of exaggerating his role in the Benghazi investigations, and at least one former Justice Department official wants to know the truth.

Speaking to MSNBC on Wednesday, former FBI general counsel and DOJ prosecutor Andrew Weissmann wants to know the specifics about Patel's resume — and discrepancies in it.

After Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said that January 6 rioters who committed acts of violence should not be let off the hook — he's standing by President Donald Trump's move to pardon hundreds of rioters, according to Politico.

Politico's Kyle Cheney reported via Bluesky, "This morning, Speaker Johnson said he won't 'second-guess' Donald Trump's pardons of Jan. 6 defendants and said 'We’re not looking backwards, we’re looking forwards.' Then he ordered up an investigation of the Jan. 6 committee."

Amid reports that career Justice and State Department employees are already being fired as President Donald Trump's administration tries to appoint more political allies to serve in those positions, a former prosecutor lamented Wednesday on MSNBC that the right appears hellbent on chasing shadows — to the detriment of functioning government.

One of the pledges from "Project 2025" discussed the removal of all employment protections in place to allow a mass government firing. It's part of the Heritage Foundation’s initiative to install 50,000 conservative movement activists to work in government posts.

Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) struggled to justify the massive scope of President Donald Trump's pardons of Jan. 6 rioters when confronted by CNN's Jake Tapper on Wednesday — arguing that some of the rioters were treated unfairly, but appearing uncomfortable about those who were convicted of violent offenses against police officers.

Turner, who holds a much more traditional GOP view on foreign policy compared with Trump, was recently booted out of the powerful chairmanship of the House Intelligence Committee by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), and was reportedly enraged about it.

President Donald Trump put former President Joe Biden on notice Wednesday that his failure to include himself as part of his flurry of last-minute pardons before departing from the White House could come back to haunt him.

The moment came during a preview of a Fox News interview with Trump set to air Wednesday night, which the network has billed as the president’s first “exclusive” Oval Office sit-down interview since his inauguration.

Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers who played a significant role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, reportedly returned to the scene of the crime on Wednesday.

Several Capitol Hill reporters spotted Rhodes at a Dunkin' in the Longworth House Office Building, seated with two women and a man.

Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) hit back at her fellow Armed Services Committee colleague, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), after Ernst backed down from her opposition to Pentagon chief nominee Pete Hegseth, facing mounting pressure from MAGA allies.

MSNBC host Katy Tur read Ernst's statement saying Hegseth's ex-wife disputed the claims from her sister-in-law, but Duckworth noted that wasn't the case.

Even though he held the office for four years already, President Donald Trump doesn't appear to have any more sophisticated of an operation when it comes to the drafting of his executive orders, according to one expert's analysis.

Trump has been rolling out a flurry of executive orders since he was sworn in for his second term on Monday. His executive orders have been focused on everything from renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America" to eliminating birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants.

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan had some harsh words for the Jan. 6 rioters President Donald Trump just pardoned en masse.

"No pardon can change the tragic truth of what happened on January 6, 2021," Chutkan wrote in a new statement dismissing one of the cases, quoting from filings against several other defendants who are now being fully pardoned. "On that day, 'a mob professing support for then-President Trump violently attacked the Capitol' ... the dismissal of this case cannot undo the 'rampage [that] left multiple people dead, injured more than 140 people, and inflicted millions of dollars in damage' ... it cannot diminish the heroism of law enforcement who 'struggled, facing serious injury and even death, to control the mob that overwhelmed them' ... it cannot whitewash the blood, feces, and terror that the mob left in its wake."